ASIA-PACIFIC POPULATION JOURNAL

Thailand (Bangkok) 85

JUNE 1998 - VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2

99.85.1 - anglais - Danièle BELANGER, Department of Sociology and Centre for Population Studies, University of Western Ontario, Ontario N6A 5C2 (Canada), and Khuat THU HONG, The Population Council, Hanoi (Viet Nam)

E-mail : dbelang@julian.uwo.ca; pc_hong@netnam.org.vn

Young single women using abortion in Hanoi, Viet Nam (p. 3-26)

This article presents the results of an exploratory study on a sample of single women who had an abortion in the northern part of Viet Nam. Results from a survey questionnaire show that most women had an unwanted pregnancy in the context of a committed relationship. Few of them had ever used a contraceptive method and, of the ones who did, they did not use it regularly or effectively. Few opportunities for exchanges on sexuality related matters and poor contraceptive knowledge and skills stand out as important determinants of abortion use. Analysis of the data from in-depth interviews revealed that communication barriers between the woman and her boyfriend and the perception of menstrual regulation as a minor procedure are among the obstacles to greater and more effective use of contraceptive methods. (VIET NAM, CITIES, INDUCED ABORTION, SPINSTERS, CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE)

99.85.2 - anglais - P. N. RAJNA, Ajay KUMAR MISHRA and S. KRISHNAMOORTHY, Department of Population Studies, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641046, Tamil Nadu (India)

E-mail : popstu@as250.bharathi.ernet.in

Impact of maternal education and health services on child mortality in Uttar Pradesh, India (p. 27-38)

This article, which examines the effect of maternal education on child mortality, shows that education has direct as well as indirect effects through antenatal care and family formation patterns on neonatal mortality. Maternal education also has a substantial effect on later childhood mortality. While improving maternal education is a means of reducing childhood mortality, an immediate reduction in childhood mortality is feasible even under existing social conditions by enhancing accessibility to maternal and child health services and safe drinking water. (INDIA, STATE, INFANT MORTALITY, CHILD MORTALITY, MOTHER, LEVELS OF EDUCATION)

99.85.3 - anglais - H. T. Abdullah KHAN, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000 (Bangladesh), and Robert RAESIDE, Department of Mathematics, Sighthill Court, Edinburgh EH11 4BN (Scotland, U.K.)

E-mail : akhan.stat@ducc.agni.com

The determinants of first and subsequent births in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh (p. 39-72)

This study focuses on the factors responsible for subsequent births in urban and rural Bangladesh. The results indicate that women with a higher age at the time of first marriage, higher education, work experience before first pregnancy and who take joint family planning decisions are at increased risk of having a first birth. These variables have the reverse effect for subsequent births. Later age and longer duration of birth interval are associated with lower risk of progressing towards having higher-order births over a 15-year period. In addition, religion, religiosity and child death are found to have a large positive effect on subsequent births in rural Bangladesh. (BANGLADESH, RURAL WOMEN, FERTILITY DETERMINANTS, BIRTH ORDER, PARITY PROGRESSION RATIO)

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